[ad_1]
According to the most recent statistical data, the municipality of the city of Šiauliai is already in zone C1 (when in 14 days the number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants reaches 150-200 and the proportion of positive tests in 7 days is 0 to 4%), where the indicator of new cases currently stands at 103.1.
The “pink” municipalities of Klaipėda city (152.3), Palanga city (121.8) and Kretinga district (115.2) remain in first place.
At that time, Šilutė and Skuodas belong to the red epidemiological zone C2, when the number of new cases reaches 150-200, and the proportion of positive studies – up to 10%. The number of new cases in Šilutė district reaches 113.3 and the proportion of positive tests is 4.8 percent. In Skuodas, the first indicator is lower: 83, but the positive participation of the research reaches exactly 4%.
In 8 municipalities 2 weeks. the number of new cases is still 0.
A new leap in cases
Also on Friday, there was an increase in new cases: 223 coronavirus infections. No new deaths have been reported since the disease.
Number of new cases in 14 days 100 thousand. the population increased to 51.6, the proportion of positive diagnostic tests increased to 1.8 percent per day. Thus, according to these indicators, the entire country is already in the yellow zone B2.
It is recalled that the Lithuanian color system is based on the number of new boxes per 100 thousand. population in 14 days and a proportion of positive tests in 7 days. It was approved in February of this year as a quarantine release plan.
A green scenario or is valid when 100 thousand. the population represents less than 25 cases and the proportion of positive tests is less than 4 percent. Scenario B or yellow is divided into B1 when there are 25-50 boxes per 100,000. population, less than 4 percent. positive tests, and B2 when 100 thousand. the population is 50 to 100 cases.
There are also scenarios C or red and D – black, where the number of cases exceeds 100 and 500 cases per 100,000. population.
In the past, these color indicators have been associated with specific restrictions and exemptions, but more recently, government officials have emphasized that the stricter measures will be linked primarily to hospital employment.
5,939 molecular tests (PCR) and 3,990 of antigens to the presumed coronavirus were carried out in the country.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has affected 280 thousand people. The number of 541 people, of whom are still ill, increased to 1,353 per day.
A total of 4,409 people died from the disease, with 9,07 deaths directly and indirectly related to COVID-19.
The first dose was vaccinated yesterday even more than 11 thousand.
A total of 16,000 people were vaccinated against the coronavirus last day. 411 people: 11 thousand. 439 of them received the first and 4,972, the second dose of the vaccine, the Department of Statistics reported on Friday.
In the country, COVID-19 has been vaccinated with at least one dose of 1 million vaccines. 336 thousand 272 people, in total – 1 million. 200 thousand 803.
At least one dose of the 55.1% vaccine was administered. more than 80, 69.7 percent. – population between 75 and 79 years old, 72.4%. – 70-74 years and 71.2 percent. – population from 65 to 69 years old.
In the 55 to 64 age group, 61.3% are vaccinated; in the age group 45 to 54 years, 55.5%; in the 35 to 44 age group, 54.1%; in the 25 to 34 age group, 46.8%. 16 – in the 24-year-old group – 44.8 percent. population. 12.4 percent of children ages 12 to 15 were vaccinated.
These values increased by several tenths of a percentage point per day.
In Lithuania, 47.8% have received at least one coronavirus vaccine. people: 0.4 percentage points more than a day before.
In total, Lithuania has received 3 million. 379 thousand 555 doses of vaccine, of which 2 million were used. 463 thousand 23 doses.
Currently unused more than 916.5 thousand. vaccine dose.
Dust: We should monitor other indicators more closely
Despite the growing number of new cases of COVID-19 infection, experts note that this should not be the most important indicator to assess a pandemic situation.
“What we would like to emphasize the most is that we should now more closely monitor other indicators at a time when countries that already have vaccines are vaccinated by large communities. This is the situation in hospitals, hospitalization rates, the number of seriously ill patients, the situation in resuscitation beds, ”said Minister Arūnas Dulkys after the Government meeting.
As he pointed out, this analysis is ongoing and today these figures are still very small.
According to Loreta Ašoklienė, the country’s chief epidemiologist, explained to tv3.lt, if the number of hospitalizations were to increase again, we would have to go back to the already known restriction measures. In the first place, apparently to restrict the flows in the points of sale and service by providing square meters per person, tightening other measures such as safety distance, hand disinfection, etc.
“Additional restrictions would also be proposed for events, especially those that take place indoors. It is also possible to limit the working hours of public catering establishments. It is important to emphasize that this does not mean that it is planned to ban or close everything again. That means a return to certain restrictions on the management of the flow of people and meetings, “he said.
Preparing to consider new measures
Next week, the Cabinet of Ministers intends to sit down to consider measures to curb the increasing incidence of COVID-19 in Lithuania and how to encourage the country’s population to get vaccinated. The Minister of Health does not hide the intention to change the privileges granted by the Opportunity Passport.
Despite the increasing incidence of COVID-19, the minister calls the concept of “quarantine” a word from the past.
“It seems to me that this is a dictionary of the past. I don’t seem to know if the word ‘quarantine’ is worth arguing with. Now it is necessary to look at the content of the specific measures that we are applying, because many of the measures that we are currently applying when there is a state of emergency, but they were also in quarantine ”, emphasized A. Dulkys.
Speaking about the quarantine regime, A. Dulkys argued that certain restrictions can only wait for the unvaccinated population.
“If someone wants to talk about a pandemic, obviously it must be emphasized that it is not a pandemic in general, but a pandemic of unvaccinated people.” If you want to talk to someone in Lithuania about the quarantine or quarantine status, let’s start with the fact that it is the quarantine of those who have not been vaccinated, ”said the minister.
[ad_2]
